India: Today’s news in pictures

Aug 23, 2018 17:10 IST

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On Thursday, Union minister Arun Jaitley resumed work at the finance and corporate affairs ministry after a three-month-long break following a successful kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman welcomes her Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe at South Block in New Delhi. Wei Fenghe’s ongoing visit to India will strengthen bilateral military ties and enhance trust, China’s state media has said, adding it will help in implementing the Wuhan consensus reached between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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Eminent journalist and author Kuldip Nayar, who fiercely fought for press freedom and protecting civil liberties, passed away on Thursday. He was 95. Nayar, known as a crusader for civil rights and press freedom, worked in several newspapers including as editor in the Statesman and Indian Express. He had also served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in the 1990s and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1997. (Sanjeev Verma / HT File)

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People pay tribute to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before the immersion of his ashes in River Brahmaputra as part of the ‘Asthi Kalash Yatra’ at Hengrabari in Guwahati. (PTI)

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The Supreme Court sought a response from the Election Commission on pleas of Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Sachin Pilot alleging duplication of voters in the voters’ list in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. A bench of Justice A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan issued notice to the ECI and the respective state election commissions, posting the matter for further hearing on August 31. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP File)

In Kerala, most of the people are slowly going back to their homes as the flood water has receded but more than 13.43 lakh people are still lodged in relief camps across the southern state. The government has set up a control room in Thiruvananthapuram to coordinate the cleaning process across the state and the civic bodies have been entrusted with the task of managing the work. (Sivaram V / REUTERS File)

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According to the 2018 World Population Data Sheet released by the Population Reference Bureau, India’s population will likely be 8% more than that of China, by mid-2030 and by mid-2050, this ‘lead’ will become 25%. While India’s population is expected to reach 1.53 and 1.68 billion by mid-2030 and mid-2050, China’s is likely to reach 1.42 billion by mid-2030 and fall to 1.34 billion by mid-2050. (Sanjeev Verma / HT File)

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India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from Union minister Arun Jaitley resuming work after three-month-long break to flood-hit Kerala slowly limping back to normalcy.